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NASB | Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. |
Subject: Is procreation a command or a blessing |
Bible Note: Shalom sister, Azure, Thank you for your further information - I'm sorry I misunderstood and thought it was about someone in particular. In a way your friend is right - people do tend to become very legalistic about marriage and divorce. Personally, I think one should stand by one's committment, one's promise to the other, where those types of problems exist - they can be worked through. Of course, where abuse (whether of the adults or children in the family) that's altogether another story. And I have the same question as your friend about the signing the paper part - I don't know about in your country, but here in the states sometimes older couples on social security cannot marry because they would lose much, if not all of their medical coverage, which when you're 60, 70 years old you can't live without. So I wonder about cases like that. Blessings upon you Cheri |